Dependencies of Subsurface on Ubuntu 20.04

[Willem Ferguson]

On 2020/10/04 13:13, Miika Turkia wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:18 PM Willem Ferguson via subsurface 
> <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org 
> <mailto:subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org>> wrote:
>
>     I asked this question several times.
>
>     I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and, of course, my subsurface
>     libraries were deleted. Where can I find the list of dependencies to
>     install for 20.04?
>
>
> If you use our Launchpad repository, everything is taken care of for 
> you. If you are planning on building Subsurface and need the 
> dependencies for that, you can still benefit from the repository. To 
> prepare, add our repository to your Ubuntu:
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:subsurface/subsurface
> sudo apt-get update
> Next step depends whether you want to install the version from our 
> repository or compile yourself. To just install Subsurface from our 
> repository use:
> sudo add install subsurface
> On the other hand, if you are planning to build yourself, use the 
> following command to automatically install the packages building 
> depends on:
>
> sudo apt build-dep subsurface
>
>     I would be prepared to help maintain a page on the Subsurface web
>     site
>     that lists the dependencies for various Linux flavours.
>
>
> I would think that the packages listed on INSTALL file in our sources 
> would be reasonably up-to-date. For the general audience, I would 
> suggest to just use the repository and not bother with listing the 
> dependencies manually. But if you want to see the facts, the 
> dependencies are included in the deb package in our repository, and 
> are up-to-date as that is build in minimal build environment and 
> whatever is needed to be installed, is automatically added to the 
> package metadata. Anyway, if you wish to see the full list of current 
> information, following command shows it (if you have our repository 
> enabled):
>
> apt-cache show subsurface
>
> Finally, build dependencies you can see also from the repository, URL:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/ubuntu/subsurface/+sourcefiles/subsurface/4.9.7-1~focal/subsurface_4.9.7-1~focal.dsc
>
> HTH,
> miika

Thank you very much, miika



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